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Sunday, 22 January 2012

Felted Key Ring

Good afternoon.

My first example of felted work which is totally hand felted. No commercial felt here. This started off as a bunch of fibres. I had to make 4 flowers, exactly the same size, two for each chain on the key ring.

I drew the flower onto dissolvable fabric to give a base for the flower. Fibres were added using a hand felting tool and then the felting was completed on my embellishing machine. Orange fibres were made into the centres of the flowers which were machines in place.

A flower was placed either side of the jump ring at the end of one of the chains and sewn through to keep it in place. A few seed beads were added to give extra texture.. The two flowers were then sewn all around the edges to totally secure them in place. This was repeated for the flower on the other chain.

PS: If you liked my 8 pointed brooches yesterday, pop over the my other blog to see some 6 pointed ones which I think look quite elegant.

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About Me

I work full time so crafting is only a hobby at the moment but I would very much like to turn it into a career. It is just a case of waiting for the right time.
I love rubber stamping, creating my own backgrounds using various techniques and many other forms of papercraft. Although I have done traditional scrapbooking for many years, I have also just discovered digital scrapbooking. If you would like to see some of my pages find DaisyTrail.com on the web and search for Shirl Freeman. Encasutic art is another favourite of mine. You can create some stunning pictures without being able to paint or draw, which I cannot do to save my life. My encaustic work ranges from small toppers for cards to A3 in size.
In "The Other Blog" I am going to keep away from papercrafting and use this one to present my other craft work such as altered art, paintings, stictching etc.